For the Life Long Learners: Four Invitations to Grow your Practice, from Developing Education and Friends
It has been great to meet our Paradigm Breakers community at conferences across the US over the past few months! What continues to strike me is that while we hail from nearly every corner of the world, from Montessori, progressive, and conventional settings; public, private, and charter schools; K-12, Higher Education, and beyond; early career educators, leaders, lifelong educators and retirees; there’s one thing that every listener I’ve met has in common: you’re ALL incredible life long learners!
It’s perhaps my favorite trait about myself: that there’s always something new to discover that could reshape my ideas, practice, and view of the world.
With that in mind, I wanted to share these upcoming opportunities for life long learning!
Upcoming DevEd Webinar: Building a Positive Tech Culture at Your School ... And why it's not about phone bans and AI policing.
Longtime listeners to the podcast will know that I have a particular disdain for phone and technology bans for a few reasons, but in particular because a ban fails to equip students with the dispositions that will allow them to thrive in a world increasingly filled with technology.
In this Developing Education webinar, Dana Anderson, an expert in Digital Citizenship, will be discussing what it takes to build a positive tech culture: moving away from the fear, compliance, and control approach that is our cultural reflex and considering what it means to see technology as a tool to support development.
We will hold the webinar twice: April 16th at 7:00pm EST and April 19th at 12:00pm.
You can register for this free webinar here!
If you want to learn more about Dana and her work, check out her Breaking the Paradigm podcast episode:
The 2026 Montessori Experience: More to Explore! (Virtual)
For those who did not attend AMI/USA’s Montessori Experience: Refresher Courses and More in San Diego, there is still a chance to be a part of the event virtually! AMI/USA is hosting a virtual event on April 11, 2026. The adolescent session in San Diego was incredibly impactful so if you work with adolescents and were not in person, I highly recommend attending.
You can find more information below!
Upcoming Course: Living in the Metacrisis: A Depth Inquiry for Parents, Educators, and Administrators
This six-week virtual inquiry invites parents, educators, and administrators - particularly within Montessori learning communities - to pause inside a world in transition and examine how modern habits of care and control shape our relationships with the young, with one another, and with the more-than-human world.
Living in the Metacrisis emphasizes reflection, relational maturity, and the capacity to stay present in the midst of uncertainty. Rather than teaching strategies for resilience or reform, this inquiry explores how the story of progress, mastery, and separability - that we have all internalized as “the human condition” - lives through us.
The metacrisis is approached not as an external catastrophe to solve but as a mirror of our collective inner world. Through that mirror, participants explore questions such as:
How do inherited ideas of goodness, protection, and achievement shape the ways we guide or limit young people?
What becomes possible when we release the need to appear certain or right?
How might care become companionship, and teaching become co-learning, in a time when the old maps no longer seem to hold?
This course was created by Raj Chawla and Andrew Kutt who appeared on a recent episode to discuss this important work. If you want to learn more about some of the ideas in the course, check out my podcast episode with Raj and Andrew here:
Register for the course here:
Ongoing with Developing Education: The Montessori Adolescent Collaborative Forum
We have had some incredible conversations with adolescent guides and practitioners from across the country over the last few weeks and want YOU to join us!
Our Purpose:
Realizing Montessori’s vision of a new world starting with how we, as practitioners, transform through dialogue and community.
Why join the MAC Forum?
Build community: Connect with fellow adolescent guides from around the world.
Co-create the forum: Your questions, observations, and experiments shape the discussion.
Access the archive: Can’t make it live? All sessions recorded and available.
Forums are held virtually every second Tuesday at 7:00pm EST
Join Today and Find Your Community!
Do you have ideas about what kinds of learning opportunities you’d like to see from Developing Education? Reply to this email to let us know!
The traditional education system had its chance.
Now it’s our turn.
